Stupid Giraffe wrote:It was Ruth's funeral today. I hope everything went as well as can be expected for Phil and the family.

Indeed.

People go on too much about the privileged background of politicians but actually Matt Hancock had a very humble upbringing in an Italian workshop owned by a woodworker named Geppetto who turned him into a human boy.

Hi folks. Thank you all for your PM's and kind words & thoughts. I'm lost for words, to be honest.The funeral went very well, evangelical-style services like this tend to be a mix of mourning and thanksgiving for a life, and thankfully the mix was balanced just right today, bang on the money.

I'll post more tomorrow, cos to be honest I feel drained right now, physically & emotionally. But I do feel a great sense of relief and closure at the moment. I'd been getting continual really bad pains in the sides of my neck, head and shoulders since Friday/Saturday, and it was only when we were walking back home after the funeral, I realised that they were slowly diminishing, probably because of all the tension I'd been holding in, without realising it, but which was now diminishing.

Anyway, thanks to you all again, and I'll be back, tomorrow probably...

RKJ Gumbleputty wrote:Hi folks. Thank you all for your PM's and kind words & thoughts. I'm lost for words, to be honest.The funeral went very well, evangelical-style services like this tend to be a mix of mourning and thanksgiving for a life, and thankfully the mix was balanced just right today, bang on the money.

I'll post more tomorrow, cos to be honest I feel drained right now, physically & emotionally. But I do feel a great sense of relief and closure at the moment. I'd been getting continual really bad pains in the sides of my neck, head and shoulders since Friday/Saturday, and it was only when we were walking back home after the funeral, I realised that they were slowly diminishing, probably because of all the tension I'd been holding in, without realising it, but which was now diminishing.

Anyway, thanks to you all again, and I'll be back, tomorrow probably...

x

Im sure Im not alone in saying you and your family have been in my thoughts ever since the news. This is the time for you to be unfazed as you go through every emotion known to mankind, let them all sweep over and under you and accept them as normal reactions - and one day these waves will lead you to somewhere you'll find some kind of peace - never forgetting, but learning to live with what has gone - you will get there - god speed.

xxxxx

You come at the Queen, you best not miss.

Dr Markus wrote:Someone in your line of work usually as their own man cave aka the shed we're they can potter around fixing stuff or something don't they?

Gosh Phil, I'm so sorry to read this. But - you're right - the funeral is a definite point of closure. I know 'time's a healer' is an over-used cliche, but it's a bloody useful one. Take each day as it comes and the pain will eventually ease.